Among his literary accomplishments were: The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance. ... He began at the Boston Custom House in January of that year. Hawthorne continued at the Custom House until he became Surveyor for the District of Salem. ... He followed it with The House of Seven Gables (1851) and The Blithedale Romance (1852). ...
The centerpiece of the village is the "fayre house." ... Captain John Turner's house, also known as the House of seven Gables, went through many changes. John Ward's house, part of the Peabody Essex Museum, is a house where you can take a tour and catch a glimpse of England furnishings and domestic life. Also a part of the Peabody Essex Museum, and open for tours, is the Crowninshield Bentley house and Gardner- Pingree house; the Pierce-Nichols house isn't open for tours, but belonged to the man who developed one of the largest India trades in the US. The Derby house, built ...
Contrary to his family's expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother's house to turn himself into a writer. ... When a local printer delayed publishing his Seven Tales of My Native Land, Hawthorne withdrew the manuscript and burned it " in a mood half-savage, half-despairing." ... (American Writers II, pg 242) In seven months it was finished. ... Within a year Hawthorne finished and published another novel named The House of Seven Gables; a story about a Pyncheon family of Salem and Maule's curse. ... After seven years in ...
In front of my house there was a tree that flourished beautifully. ... In China, the age for entering first grade is seven, a year older than that in the U.S. ... The gap between grade levels and the huge disparity between the educational systems were roadblocks on my way to the house of knowledge. ... Diving into the sea of Little Women, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, and many more fascinating works of fictions, I began to improve my reading and writing skills. ...
